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Where’s that huge iceberg headed?
Corrinne Burns blogs on ADIOS, a GPS enabled javelin which helps tracks icebergs. You can see ADIOS on display in the Museum’s contemporary science gallery. Why would you put a GPS tracker onto a...
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Waiting for the end of the world with my father, James Lovelock
As a new exhibition on James Lovelock opens, his daughter Christine recalls her science-filled childhood and the night they sat up waiting for a comet to destroy the Earth. Photo of James Lovelock in...
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Happy Cosmonautics Day!
Julia Tcharfas, Curatorial Assistant for our upcoming Cosmonauts exhibition, reflects on over fifty years of manned space flight. I am thrilled to be part of the Science Museum team working on a new...
View ArticleParticle Fever breaks out at the Science Museum
By Pete Dickinson, Head of Comms at the Science Museum. What better way to round off events linked to our Collider exhibition about the world’s greatest experiment than with a special screening of...
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Wonderful Things: VCS3 Synthesiser
Stella Williams from our Learning Support Team writes about one of her favourite Science Museum objects The VCS3 was more or less the first portable commercially available synthesizer, unlike previous...
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In search of perfect sound – introducing Britain’s largest horn loudspeaker
Aleks Kolkowski, former sound artist-in-residence, remembers his first encounter with the Museum’s exponential horn. A long black metal tube, slightly tapered and almost 9-foot-long lay on a row of...
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The first spacewalk
Julia Tcharfas, Curatorial Assistant for the upcoming Cosmonauts exhibition, celebrates Alexei Leonov’s 80th birthday. In the ghostly black and white footage of the first ever spacewalk, cosmonaut...
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Introducing The Rubbish Collection
This summer the Science Museum is doing something crazy. It is allowing members of the public to rummage through its bins, writes artist Joshua Sofaer. The Rubbish Collection is a two-part art...
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The First Woman in Space
Ulrika Danielsson, Content Coordinator for the Cosmonauts exhibition, reflects on the first woman to travel into space. On this day (16 June) in 1963, the spacecraft Vostok-6 thundered off into...
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The art of rubbish
Project Curator of The Rubbish Collection, Sarah Harvey, considers how art can inspire us to question our everyday relationships with ‘rubbish’. The newly opened Rubbish Collection exhibition is the...
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3D printing great inventions…from page to product
Mark Champkins, Inventor in Residence, looks at how 3D printing helped him bring to life a young inventor’s bright idea Have you spotted an unusual looking yellow and pink device sitting among the wall...
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Every receipt, every teabag, every half-eaten potato – getting hands-on at...
In this week’s blog from The Rubbish Collection, Corrinne Burns, Content Developer at our Antenna Gallery gets a volunteer’s view on the exhibition. ‘Do people just get naked in the Science Museum?’...
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Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Science Museum
Curator Peter Morris shares nine unusual facts about the Science Museum to celebrate our 105th birthday today (26 June 1909). 1. The Science Museum was officially established on 26 June 1909 thanks, in...
View ArticleA sustainable future
In the next of our series of posts linked to The Rubbish Collection, Matt Moore, Head of Sustainable Development for the Science Museum Group, looks at how we measure and minimise the environmental...
View ArticleMind Maps Twitter Tour
Today, to celebrate the anniversary of the first full-body MRI scan, we took a tour of our Mind Maps exhibition with curator Phil Loring. Phil shared his favourite objects and stories from the...
View ArticleHow the 1967 Wimbledon Championships made Broadcasting History
Chloe Vince, a volunteer working on our new Information Age gallery, looks at how the 1967 Wimbledon Championships made broadcasting history
View ArticleManaging our waste
In the next of our series of posts linked to The Rubbish Collection, Sarah Harvey, Project Curator, talks to Neil Grundon, Deputy Chairman of Grundon Waste Management. Grundon is the Science Museum’s...
View Article281,647 visitors: a ‘rubbish’ story
In the next in our series of blogs about The Rubbish Collection, Project Curator Sarah Harvey looks back at what we have collected and reflects on what Phase 1 of the exhibition has taught us about our...
View ArticleJoin our #UnlockingLovelock Twitter tour
Are you a fan of maverick scientist James Lovelock? To celebrate Lovelock’s 95th birthday next week, we are inviting you to join our curator Alex Johnson for a live Twitter tour of our exhibition...
View ArticleModern art is Rubbish
In the latest of our series of blogs linked to The Rubbish Collection Science Museum Inventor-in-Residence Mark Champkins looks back at Phase 1, while Project Curator Sarah Harvey gives us a sneak...
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